MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Version
1.32.2
5.1.21
2.5.5
0.61
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-01-10 (27 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-01-10 (27 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL2+
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
All
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Zope
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
none
Datastorage MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
optional extensions available
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
Patch
Development/Support MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8538 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
4
German, English, French, Japanese
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
'_subscript_'
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: description
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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